Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 240
Xu Zhiqiong had also heard of banditry in Yongzhou.

At the junction of the two countries, there are places that neither country can take care of, and these places have become gathering places for bandits.

But in Xu Zhiqiong's impression, the cottage must have a fierce name. Putting the fragrant jasmine in front of the cottage always feels less murderous.

Forget it, each village has its own customs, so you can't underestimate the fighting power of the village just because of the elegant name.

But the combat power is not well judged, and this tactic is really strange.

The head of Village Liu attacked from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain, and the terrain was really unfavorable.

If it sneaks up without a sound and comes in an ambush, there may be some chances of winning.

But she went all the way with great fanfare, rushing straight up the mountain road, but didn't stretch her neck, waiting to be killed cleanly?

Looking at the strength of the troops, the strength of the troops is quite substantial, and the entire mountain road is full of sergeants.

But if you look closely, they don't look like sergeants. Some are holding hatchets, some are holding hoes, and some are holding poles.

The eldest sister took a stick, looking thick and thin, it looked like a rolling pin.

The prince said: "This is not a bandit, this is a refugee!"

He was right, this is indeed a group of refugees.

But no matter bandits or refugees, Yu Shan will not show mercy when the battle comes, this is the duty of a general.

Yu Shan ordered to shoot the bow, and the village owner was still rushing up the mountain, only one round of feathered arrows could shoot her into a hedgehog.

The prince suddenly shouted: "Stay for a while, let me have a word with her!"

Yu Shan looked at the prince nervously, Lu Yunxi stopped the prince and said, "Your Highness, what do you have to say to these bandits..."

The crown prince pushed Lu Yunxi away and stood in front of the army formation. The chief of the village, Liu Jiaqi, came up to him with a spear and shouted, "Who is the enemy general? Tell us your name!"

The prince sneered and said: "A good man does not change his name when he walks, but he does not change his surname when he sits. I am the master of Dengzhai, so is Xu Zhiqiong!"

and many more!Why are you pretending to be me?
Xu Zhiqiong looked at the prince in bewilderment.

Liu Jiaqi and Master Liu Dazhai clasped his fists and saluted, "It turns out to be Master Xu, I have admired him for a long time!"

The prince asked: "Have you really heard of my reputation?"

Liu Jiaqi laughed loudly and said, "Don't underestimate me because I'm a girl. Who hasn't heard of the name Zhangdengzhai in Yongzhou's Jiushan Eighty-one Village!"

Xu Zhiqiong shouted: "You are talking nonsense!"

The prince yelled: "Presumptuous, I am the owner of the village, and you are the owner of the village?"

"I'm……"

Forget it.

After the war is over, I will never come to Yongzhou again.

Amid the laughter of the crowd, Xu Zhiqiong lowered his head.

The prince said to Liu Jiaqi: "Village Master Liu, I have never heard of your banner before, but judging from this battle, your Moli Village is considered a respectable village in Yongzhou! How could you do such a disgraceful thing?"

Liu Jiaqi shouted: "Why do you say I'm not decent?"

"It's disrespectful for you to bring such a group of people to rob me of food!"

Liu Jiaqi sneered and said: "They are all heroes who gather in the mountains and forests. What do we do for a living if we don't rob? Dare to rob is the duty of us heroes!"

"That depends on who grabs it from. We snatched these grains from Tunu! We fought with Tunu and exchanged blood and life for the grain. You can eat it ready-made here, and you are worthy of it." The word "good man?"

Liu Jiaqi also felt that he was wronged, and argued strongly: "We originally wanted to rob Tu slaves, and we all lay in ambush at the foot of the mountain. You stole our business!"

The prince said: "Since we are the first, the food is ours!"

"That's not to say, I brought so many horses here, how could I return empty-handed, I would at least ask for half of the food!"

The crown prince nodded and said: "If you say that you only need half of the food, there is still room for discussion."

Instead of burning the food, he really wanted to give the food to these refugees.

Liu Jiaqi's face beamed with joy when he heard the words: "Liu has thanked Village Master Xu!"

"Wait a minute," Yu Shan stepped forward to stop him, "We need to be cautious about this matter."

Liu Jiaqi was startled, this man is quite handsome, why would he want to ruin my good deeds with such vicious thoughts?

Yu Shan whispered to the crown prince, "Your Highness, it would be great if these people could take the food away, I'm afraid they won't be able to take it away, and they will be robbed by Tu Nu, and they should be burned on the spot, so as to avoid future troubles forever."

Burned on the spot?

From a military point of view, this is the right choice.

But judging from the current situation, this is forcing the refugees to fight with them.

The prince bowed his head and said nothing, Yu Shan said again: "This group of refugees can't even recognize our military uniforms. They must have never experienced war. If the food is handed over to them, it will definitely fall into the hands of Tu Nu. Your Highness listen to me. In a word, this food must be burned."

The prince raised his head and asked Liu Jiaqi, "Where is your Jasmine village?"

Liu Jiaqi said: "Fifty miles to the west from here is my cottage. If the owner of Xu village does not abandon it, let's follow Liu's village!"

"I won't go!" The crown prince waved his hand, "I, Xu Zhiqiong, have been in Yongzhou for more than ten years. What kind of storms have I never seen? I am not afraid of you today, I really want to make you a friend!
I will give you all these grains, but you have to let Liang Yuyang, my second master, come to your cottage to have a look! "

The prince looked at Xu Zhiqiong and said, "Yuyang, I know you are a kind-hearted person, unlike me, Xu Zhiqiong, who is despicable, vicious, ruthless, and commits all kinds of evil. You must handle this matter carefully. kill them!"

Xu Zhiqiong looked at the prince and said, "Zhiqiong, I, Liang Yuyang, am not a good person. I have done as many bad things as you, so you can rest assured!"

The prince asked Xu Zhiqiong to follow Liu Jiaqi to Moli Village, with the purpose of asking Xu Zhiqiong to help Liu Jiaqi escort the food and grass.

Xu Zhiqiong was extremely vigilant, and if he found that the Tunu army was coming to rob, he would immediately burn the food.

It sounds cruel, but it's protecting the refugees, who simply don't have the ability to fight Tunu's army.

Tao Huayuan couldn't worry about Xu Zhiqiong, so she went with her. The refugees drove the carriage down the mountain and walked eastward. Xu Zhiqiong looked at the speed of the march. It might not even cover twenty miles overnight.

When dawn breaks, if he still can't get to Jasmine Village, Xu Zhiqiong must burn the food and let this group of people carry so much food and walk on the road in broad daylight. As long as the Tunu people are not blind, there is no reason to let them go .

"Master Liu, please let your people go faster!"

Liu Jiaqi turned around and said, "Go fast! Go fast!"

Going so fast, how many people can understand this?
Tao Huayuan looked at Liu Jiaqi and said, "How long have you been in the grass?"

"No more, no less, twenty years!"

Tao Huayuan smiled and said, "Are you twenty years old?"

Liu Jiaqi snorted coldly: "My mother fell into the grass when she was pregnant. When I was born, I was in the cottage!"

"How many troops are there in your cottage?"

Liu Jiaqi pointed behind him and said, "Just look at it for yourself. I only brought [-]% of the troops, so there are so many!"

Tao Huayuan turned around and took a look: "I think there are more than [-] people here. If it's only [-]%, could it be that there are [-] people in your cottage?"

Liu Jiaqi sneered: "What about [-] people? There have been fewer people in my Jasmine village in recent years. When my mother was alive, [-] people would not be a problem."

"Can your cottage support [-] people?"

Liu Jiaqi sighed and said: "Looking back on the past, it is inevitable to sigh!"

Tao Huayuan said to Xu Zhiqiong, "Turn your face away!"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "Why do you want me to turn my face away?"

"I'm going to beat her up. I'm afraid you'll be soft-hearted and won't see blood!"

Liu Jiaqi was furious: "What do you think? If you say you want to fight, I'm not afraid, and according to the rules of the rivers and lakes, we will win one-on-one and ride alone!"

Xu Zhiqiong laughed and said, "Do you think she can't beat you to death one-on-one? Tell you to go faster!"

Xu Zhiqiong was worried that there was no Jasmine Village at all, and he suspected that these refugees didn't even have a place to stay.

But at dawn, they really arrived at Jasmine Village.

This is a very strange place. It seems that a crater was smashed out of the central part of a big mountain. Moli Village is in the crater, surrounded by bare cliffs, and only a canyon is connected to the outside of the mountain.

If it is a place of seclusion, this is indeed a wonderful point, but if fallen grass becomes bandits, this place is a bit dangerous.

A canyon seems easy to defend and difficult to attack, but if the enemy blocks the canyon, these people will have no way out and can easily trap them to death here.

The defense of the canyon is related to the survival of the village, but the owner of the village obviously has no common sense in this regard. He only placed two gatekeepers at the mouth of the canyon, and there are no sentries on both sides of the canyon.

There are indeed more than [-] people in Moli Village, except for the more than [-] people who went out to grab food with Liu Jiaqi, the rest are old and weak.

The head of Village Liu clasped his fists at Xu Zhiqiong and saluted, "Second Master, you have seen my cottage, Liu is a real person, and there is indeed No. [-] Moli Village in Yongzhou. You can leave this food to me. Come down!"

Anyway, at least they have a place to stay, as long as they don't go out to show off, Tu Nu won't call.

But this Village Master Liu is really ostentatious.

Tao Huayuan looked at the structure of the cottage, and asked Village Master Liu, "Where do you live?"

Liu Jiaqi pointed to a dilapidated wooden house and said, "That's where I live, you two, go in and have a drink!"

Tao Huayuan took Liu Jiaqi's hand into the cabin, locked the door, and prevented Xu Zhiqiong from entering.

Half an hour later, Liu Jiaqi came out and followed behind Tao Huayuan, her face flushed.

Tao Huayuan pointed to the two wings of the valley and told her to set up secret whistles at the designated places. Liu Jiaqi nodded repeatedly: "I always listen to my sister."

Tao Huayuan gathered carpenters and blacksmiths together again, and taught them how to forge weapons and build outposts.

Liu Jiaqi nodded and said, "I always listen to my sister."

Tao Huayuan stayed in the cottage for a whole day and helped the cottage set up a lot of magic circles.

At dusk, when the two left, Village Master Liu took Tao Huayuan's hand, but he was reluctant to let her go: "Sister, will you still come?"

Tao Huayuan nodded and said: "As long as you are here, my sister will definitely come. If you can't stay here anymore, then come and join my sister."

Village Master Liu said with tears in his eyes: "You go to my sister, but you want to be like my sister, and be a lady of the village?"

Tao Huayuan smiled, stood beside Xu Zhiqiong, and said to Village Master Liu: "Such a good man, but still wronged you?"

The two left Jasmine Village, Xu Zhiqiong asked, "What did you say to that village owner, why did she listen to you so much?"

Tao Huayuan smiled and said, "Why do you ask this?"

"Where did that woman come from?"

"I was born in a scholarly family. Because of the war, I was separated from my family during the fleeing. Relying on my knowledge of writing and spelling and some martial arts, I dragged this group of refugees here to become bandits."

Xu Zhiqiong smiled and said, "Is this also considered falling grass?"

Tao Huayuan sighed: "She is a little tender, but after all, she has the courage. One day, if I am free, I will come to this village to join her and be a king of the mountain together!"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "Why should we go to her? Wouldn't it be better for us to start another mountain?"

Tao Huayuan said, "Mountains are easy to find, but where can people be found?"

"Let's give birth by ourselves! I will be the king of the mountain, and you will be Mrs. Yazhai. You can give birth to more than a dozen at one go, and all of them will be our soldiers!"

Tao Huayuan complained, her face flushed, and she was about to send the two of them back to Shuangxiong Pass with a magic circle, but she saw Xu Zhiqiong standing there without moving.

"Tao'er, you go back first, I have something important to do, I have to go somewhere else!"

Tao Huayuan frowned and said, "Where are you going, but can't you tell me?"

"Now is not the time, I will tell you later!"

Tao Huayuan didn't ask any more questions, but bit her lip and walked away from the circle.

Xu Zhiqiong circled around on the spot, jumped up, and went to the Department of Punishment.

He just received a message from Xia Hu.

Brother Qian Limu has arrived at Xia Hu's Judgment Pavilion, and Xia Hu is trying his best to keep him.

……

Back at Shuangxiong Pass, Tao Huayuan returned to her room, sighed softly, and said to herself: "Don't tell me anything, but keep everything from me, who do you think I am? And let me give birth to you, I will give birth to you..."

Someone outside the door coughed and said: "The child is still going to be born!"

Tao Huayuan immediately stood up and saluted: "I have seen Master!"

Tai Bu arrived in Yongzhou.

He wants to take the prince back to the capital himself.

(End of this chapter)